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...These small-fry complaints (and the big treatment they got) were the visible signs of a great internal problem which was besetting Russia's topmost leaders last week. Russia's vast new emergency farm program was going badly. The outcome may well determine the future of Nikita Khrushchev, the Communist Party secretary who in one year has risen so high that he now stands side by side with Premier Georgy Malenkov in a diumvirate ruling Soviet Russia...
Past Failure. In his 25 years of brutal collectivization and regimentation of the peasantry, Stalin failed to wrest enough food out of the Russian soil to feed his people; the output of some agricultural products (e.g., meat, milk, butter) fell below the 1916 levels of czarist days. Last September Nikita Khrushchev admitted the shortcomings of the Stalin program and announced a program of incentives to persuade the peasants to grow more. The Kremlin said consolingly that there was enough bread grain, but Khrushchev complained of severe shortages of livestock, vegetables (particularly potatoes), coarse grain and other fodder...
Khrushchev decreed the trek of the young "pioneers" to the unfarmed lands of Kazakhstan. "The Soviet people," said Nikita Khrushchev, "will undoubtedly provide the necessary number of workers for the reclamation of waste and virgin land. Everybody realizes that this is an all-peoples' cause...
...result that has been repeated in every East European satellite). Before Russia collectivized, it had a normal surplus of some 10 million tons of grain a year. The surplus was used up; even so, more than 5,000,000 Russians starved to death. Only last year Russia's Nikita Khrushchev confessed that 35 years of Communist dogma have produced great failures and that farm production is lower than in Czarist 1913. Yet in the face of that confessed failure, Peking has chosen to gamble on the old system for China...
...Supreme Soviet. Said Premier Malenkov, to one parliamentary chamber: "If the aggressive circles banking on the atomic weapon should resort to madness, and should want to test the strength and might of the Soviet Union, there can be no doubt that the aggressor would be crushed . . ." Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev told the other chamber: "It will inevitably end in the collapse of the whole capitalist system...